# Deaths in November 2001
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2001.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## November 2001
### 1

* Juan Bosch, 92, Dominican politician, historian, and first president of the Dominican Republic, respiratory distress.
* Solange Chaput-Rolland, 82, Canadian journalist, author, and politician.
* Tom Cheney, 67, American Major League Baseball player.
* Olivia Hamnett, 73, English actress, brain cancer.
* Ravindra Kaushik, 49, Indian spy, heart disease, tuberculosis.
* JP Miller, 81, American writer, pneumonia.
* John S. Romanides, 74, Roman theologian, Eastern Orthodox priest, and scholar.
* Don Craig Wiley, 57, American structural biologist, drowned.

### 2

* Fiorella Betti, 74, Italian actress and voice actress.
* Mona Fandey, 45, Malaysian pop singer and convicted murderer, execution by hanging.
* Hank Gremminger, 68, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams), cardiac arrest.
* Doug Hele, 82, British motorcycle engineer.
* Thomas Schleicher, 28, Austrian judoka, suicide.
* Elazar Shach, 102, Lithuanian haredi rabbi.
* Buddy Starcher, 95, American country singer.
* William Whitlock, 83, British politician.

### 3

* Evan Adermann, 74, Australian politician.
* Thomas Brasch, 56, German author, poet and film director, heart failure.
* Lucio Colletti, 76, Italian Western marxist philosopher.
* Denis Gallagher, 79, Irish politician.
* Ernst Gombrich, 92, Austrian-British art historian.
* Frederick Heyliger, 85, American officer with Easy Company during World War II.
* Pradeep Kumar, 76, Indian actor.
* Mariano Navarro Rubio, 87, Spanish politician.
* Viveka Seldahl, 57, Swedish actress, cancer.
* Ward Wood, 77, American actor (Mannix) and television writer.

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* Edward Patrick Boland, 90, American politician.
* Peter Coyne, 84, Australian politician.
* Bob Gillespie, 82, American baseball player.
* Arthur Guepe, 86, American football player and coach.
* Paul R. Screvane, 87, American politician, congestive heart failure.
* Ng Eng Teng, 67, Singaporean sculptor, kidney disease.

### 5

* Gholam Reza Azhari, 89, Prime Minister of Iran and military leader, cancer.
* Milan D. Bish, 72, American diplomat (Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, and St. Vincent).
* Roy Boulting, 87, English filmmaker.
* Milton William Cooper, 58, American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author, shot.
* Barry Horne, 49, English animal rights activist, liver failure after hunger strike.
* Joan Marion, 93, British stage, film and television actress.

### 6

* Terry D. Clark, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Svend Engedal, 73, American soccer goalkeeper.
* Bettie Hewes, 80, Canadian politician.
* Don Lavoie, 50, American economist, stroke.
* Sveto Letica, 75, Croatian admiral.
* Gray Morrow, 67, American comic book artist (Man-Thing, El Diablo, Tarzan).
* Peter Kenneth Newman, 73, English economist and historian of economic thought.
* Anthony Shaffer, 75, English playwright (Sleuth) and screenwriter (The Wicker Man, Frenzy).
* Ralph Wenzel, 83, American gridiron football player and United States Marine Corps officer.
* Erich Zeller, 81, German figure skater and figure skating coach.

### 7

* Shahed Ali, 76, Bangladeshi educationist, cultural activist and an author.
* Bobby Bass, 65, American stunt performer.
* Nida Blanca, 65, Filipino actress, stabbed.
* Delia Garcés, 82, Argentine film actress.
* Sachiko Hidari, 71, Japanese film actress, lung cancer.
* Geoffrey Jenkins, 81, South African writer.
* Ivan Neill, 95, British Army officer and Unionist politician.
* François Philippe, 71, French football player.
* Alta Schrock, 90, American biology professor and community activist.

### 8

* Paolo Bertoli, 93, Italian cardinal, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.
* Anno Birkin, 20, English poet and musician, road accident.
* Valentin Eduque, 74, Filipino basketball coach and player.
* Harold Fisch, 78, British-Israeli author, literary critic, and diplomat, tumor.
* Albrecht Fröhlich, 85, German-British mathematician.
* Malak Karsh, 86, Canadian photographer.
* Peter Laslett, 85, British historian.
* Patrick Quinlan, Irish academic and politician.
* Radmila Savićević, 75, Serbian actress.
* Cyril Morley Shelford, 80, Canadian author and political figure.
* Stanislav Štrunc, 59, Czech football player.

### 9

* Denis Atkinson, 75, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies.
* Nancye Wynne Bolton, 84, Australian tennis player.
* Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish historical novelist.
* Ethel D. Jacobs, 91, American thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, pneumonia.
* Giovanni Leone, 93, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1963;1968) and President (1971–1978).
* Édouard Marcelle, 92, French rower.
* Tore Zetterholm, 86, Swedish novelist, playwright and journalist.

### 10

* Michael Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth, 75, British politician.
* Theys Eluay, 64, Indonesian independence activist for West Papuan, assassinated, strangling.
* Maxwell Hunter, 79, American aerospace engineer.
* Ken Kesey, 66, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion), complications following surgery.
* Enid McElwee, 87, New Zealand fencer.
* Junji Nishime, 80, Japanese politician.

### 11

* John R. Foley, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1959 to 1961).
* Leon Gray, 49, American gridiron football player (Jackson State, New England Patriots, Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints).
* Sir Denis Spotswood, 85, British Chief of the Air Staff (1971–1974)
* Tadashi Sugiura, 66, Japanese baseball player.
* Emmanuel Blayo Wakhweya, 64, Ugandan politician and economist, cardiac arrest.
* Journalists killed in the Dasht-e Qaleh Taliban ambush
** Pierre Billaud, 31, French radio reporter and journalist.
** Volker Handloik, 40, German freelance journalist and reporter.
** Johanne Sutton, 34, French radio reporter and journalist.

### 12

* Carrie Donovan, 73, American fashion editor (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine).
* Albert Hague, 81, German-American composer (Redhead, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and actor (Fame, Space Jam), cancer.
* Paul Krasny, 66, American film and television director.
* Ashot Melikjanyan, 49, Soviet/Armenian actor, plane crash.
* Tony Miles, 46, English chess grandmaster, heart failure.
* Babik Reinhardt, 57, French guitarist, heart attack.
* Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, 74, American Saivite guru.
* Radovan Vlajković, 77, Yugoslav politician.

### 13

* Karuna Banerjee, 81, Indian actress.
* Robert C. Eckhardt, 88, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 8th congressional district from 1967 to 1981).
* Marius Flothuis, 87, Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic.
* Panama Francis, 82, American swing jazz drummer, stroke.
* Sam Maple, 48, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing, cancer.
* Pat McReavy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Frank Messer, 76, American sportscaster.
* Peggy Mount, 86, English actress (Oliver!, The Princess and the Goblin).
* Mayzod Reid, 73, New Zealand diver.
* Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, American pole vaulter, Alzheimer's disease.

### 14

* Seth Benardete, 71, American classicist and philosopher.
* Charlotte Coleman, 33, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral), bronchial asthma attack.
* Juan Carlos Lorenzo, 79, Argentine football player and coach.
* Zigu Ornea, 71, Romanian literary critic, biographer and book publisher, failed surgery.
* Nathan M. Pusey, 94, American university educator.
* Herbert Tauss, 72, American artist, illustrator, and painter.
* Hugh Verity, 83, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot during World War II.

### 15

* Megan Boyd, 86, British fly tyer.
* Edwin H. Colbert, 96, American paleontologist, researcher and author.
* Herbert Feith, 71, Australian academic and scholar.
* Satoru Kobayashi, 71, Japanese film director, bladder cancer.
* Mandan Mishra, 72, Indian sanskrit scholar.
* Jan Rabie, 81, Afrikaans writer of short stories and novels.
* Nicolas Ruwet, 68, Belgian linguist, literary critic and musical analyst.
* Alberto Ullastres, 87, Spanish politician and ambassador.

### 16

* Tal Abernathy, 80, American baseball player.
* Mohammed Atef, 57, Egyptian jihadist and military chief of al-Qaeda, airstrike.
* Rosemary Brown, 85, British composer and spiritualist.
* Tommy Flanagan, 71, American jazz pianist, brain aneurysm.
* Montague Jayawickrama, 90, Sri Lankan politician.
* Clifford A. Jones, 89, American politician.
* Red Steiner, 86, American baseball player.

### 17

* Irving Crane, 88, American pool player.
* John M. Dawson, 71, American computational physicist.
* Jerry Jerome, 89, American jazz and big band tenor saxophonist (Glenn Miller, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw).
* Michael Karoli, 53, German guitarist, singer, violinist and cellist (Can), cancer.
* Lendon Smith, 80, American pediatrician, author, and television personality.
* Billy Vessels, 70, American football player.
* Harrison A. Williams, 81, American politician.

### 18

* Mel Deutsch, 86, American baseball player.
* Roar Hauglid, 90, Norwegian art historian, antiquarian and publicist.
* Malcolm McFee, 52, English actor, cancer.
* Ela Peroci, 79, Slovene children's book writer.
* Renato Righetto, 80, Brazilian Olympic basketball referee, Alzheimer's disease.
* Harriette Tarler, 81, American film actress.

### 19

* Baghdasar Arzoumanian, 85, Armenian architect and designer.
* Roland Beamont, 81, British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force.
* Marylise Ben-Haim, 73, Algerian activist, novelist, poet, and painter.
* Marcelle Ferron, 77, Canadian Québécoise artist and a member of Les Automatistes.
* Bagrat Ulubabyan, 75, Armenian writer and historian.
* Journalists killed in the Pul-i-Estikam bridge ambush
** Harry Burton, 33, Australian journalist and cameraman.
** Maria Grazia Cutuli, 39, Italian journalist.
** Julio Fuentes, 46, Spanish war correspondent.
** Aziz Ullah Haidari, 33, Pakistani correspondent and photo-journalist.

### 20

* James Broad, 43, American heavyweight boxer.
* Kassi Manlan, 53, Côte d'Ivoire World Health Organization aid worker, murdered.
* Pierre Meillassoux, 73, French architect.
* Leonard Murray, 88, American railroad executive.
* Borko Temelkovski, 81, Macedonian politician and communist leader.

### 21

* Ralph Burns, 79, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, complications of a stroke and pneumonia.
* Seydou Keïta, Malian photographer.
* Gardner McKay, 69, American actor (Adventures in Paradise), artist and author, prostate cancer.
* Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, Soviet bioweaponeer and defector, stroke.
* Seymour Reit, 83, American children's author.
* Salahuddin of Selangor, 77, Malaysian king (11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and 8th Sultan of Selangor).

### 22

* Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
* Theo Barker, 78, British social and economic historian.
* Norman Granz, 83, American jazz music impresario and record producer.
* Ronald Cuthbert Hay, 85, British Royal Marine fighter ace.
* George S. N. Luckyj, 82, Ukrainian writer and historian.
* Luis Santaló, 90, Spanish mathematician.

### 23

* Vendramino Bariviera, 64, Italian racing cyclist.
* Bo Belinsky, 64, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Kiyoshi Inoue, 87, Japanese historian, author, and academic.
* Krishnananda, 79, Indian Hindu philosopher and theologian.
* David Charles McClintock, 88, English botanist, horticulturist and author.
* Medhat Youssef Mohamed, 74, Egyptian basketball player.
* Kiril Semov, 71, Bulgarian basketball player.
* O. C. Smith, 69, American singer ("Little Green Apples").
* Gerhard Stoltenberg, 73, German politician and minister.
* Mary Whitehouse, 91, British campaigner against permissiveness.

### 24

* Tommy Gallacher, 79, Scottish football player.
* Rachel Gurney, 81, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs).
* Princess Sophie of Hanover, 87, European royalty, sister of Prince Philip.
* Robert Helps, 73, American concert pianist and composer, cancer.
* Jacob Landau, 83, American artist.
* Donald McPherson, 56, Canadian Olympic figure skater, complications from diabetes.
* Francis Daniels Moore, 88, American surgeon.
* Melanie Thornton, 34, American singer, plane crash.
* William Woodfield, 73, American photographer, and television screenwriter and producer, heart failure.

### 25

* Alan Bray, 53, British historian and gay rights activist, AIDS-related complications.
* Harry Devlin, 83, American artist, painter and magazine cartoonist (Collier's).
* David Gascoyne, 85, English poet (Surrealist movement).
* Douglas Morton, 85, Canadian soldier, politician, and judge.
* Margaret Byrd Rawson, 102, American educator, researcher and writer.
* Johnny Micheal Spann, 32, American operations officer in the C.I.A., killed in action.
* Erna Steuri, 84, Swiss Olympic alpine skier.

### 26

* Sam Claphan, 45, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Mathias Clemens, 86, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.
* Regine Hildebrandt, 60, German biologist and politician (Social Democratic Party of Germany), breast cancer.
* Lajos Kada, 77, Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Joe Modise, 72, South African political activist, cancer.
* Edel Randem, 91, Norwegian Olympic figure skater.
* Ulf Strömberg, 42, Swedish cameraman, rifle shots.
* Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, 58, Finnish-Sami writer, musician, and artist.
* Grete von Zieritz, 102, Austrian-German composer and pianist.

### 27

* Ray Frankowski, 82, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Dons).
* Gordon Freeth, 87, Australian politician (House of Representatives) and diplomat (Japan, United Kingdom).
* Paul Hume, 85, American music critic and author.
* Harry Sternberg, 97, American painter and printmaker.
* Joe Hin Tjio, 82, American cytogeneticist.
* Jane Welsh, 96, British actress.

### 28

* Louis Fisher, 88, American politician (Socialist Labor Party of America).
* Gunnar Hellström, 72, Swedish actor and director.
* Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, 91, Soviet and Ukrainian aerospace engineer.
* Norman Lumsden, 95, British opera singer and actor, shingles infection.
* Kal Mann, 84, American lyricist ("Teddy Bear", "Butterfly", "Let's Twist Again").
* William Reid, 79, Scottish bomber pilot and war hero (Victoria Cross) during World War II.
* Igor Stechkin, 79, Russian small arms designer.

### 29

* Viktor Astafyev, 77, Soviet and Russian writer.
* Usman Awang, 72, Malaysian poet, playwright, and novelist, heart attack.
* Budd Boetticher, 85, American film director (seven westerns starring Randolph Scott).
* Elta Cartwright, 93, American Olympic sprinter.
* Mic Christopher, 32, Irish singer-songwriter, accidental fall.
* Carol Goodner, 97, American actress.
* George Harrison, 58, British singer-songwriter and musician (The Beatles), lung cancer.
* John Knowles, 75, American author, A Separate Peace.
* Marcelino López, 58, Cuban-American baseball player.
* John Mitchum, 82, American character actor (Dirty Harry series, Telefon, F Troop), stroke.
* Helvio Soto Soto, 71, Chilean filmmaker.
* Erwin Thaler, 71, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (silver medal for the four-man bobsled: 1964 Winter Olympics, 1968 Winter Olympics).

### 30

* Kikutaro Baba, 96, Japanese malacologist.
* Annibale Brasola, 76, Italian racing cyclist.
* Francisco Calvet, 80, Spanish football player.
* Lawrence Coughlin, 72, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, 1969–1993), cancer.
* Sergio Ferriani, 76, Italian basketball player.
* Ernst Hufschmid, 88, Swiss footballer.
* Ademar Miranda Júnior, 60, Brazilian football player.
* Boris Kuzmin, 60, Soviet rower.
* František Majdloch, 72, Czechoslovak boxer.
* Walt Zirinsky, 81, American football player.